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Betfair has said that its Next President market is set to become the most traded it has ever seen, even surpassing the Brexit vote. By 6 November, approximately $130 million had been traded on the winner of the presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. This figure is in comparison to roughly $50 on the equivalent market in …

On a weekend which saw the top four teams record comfortable away victories, it was no surprise to see that a huge majority of punters on Spiffx backed the favourites in-play. However, it was a surprise that 38.71% of players favoured a Sunderland win over Arsenal in the pre-play market. Arsene Wenger’s side are unbeaten since an opening day 4-3 …

Just two weeks after Radiohead became the first headline act confirmed for Glastonbury 2017, Ladbrokes has confirmed that they have stopped taking bets on Ed Sheeran also topping the bill at next year’s festival. The 25-year-old English singer-songwriter, famous for hits such as ‘Thinking out loud’ and ‘The A Team’, attracted a flurry of bets which saw his odds drop from …

Ladbrokes has confirmed that betting on Article 50 has been thrown into chaos after yesterday’s High Court intervention, which ruled that parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU. Following the ruling, Ladbrokes initially kept 2017 as the odds-on favourite for when the UK will invoke Article 50. However, it is now just …

William Hill has apologised to customers after criminal third-party activity in the form of a ‘sophisticated’ DDoS cyber-attack led to its websites crashing on Tuesday. As reported in The Register, many of the bookmaker’s sites went down, and remained unable to provide better than intermittent service throughout Wednesday due to the ongoing attack. This is despite the company’s work with …

Stockholm Nasdaq-listed online betting platform provider Kambi Group Plc (Kambi) continues its positive 2016 momentum as the company welcomed new partners in its latest quarter performance Publishing its ‘unaudited’ Q3 2016 update (period ending 30 September), Kambi recorded a 15% revenue gain to €14.8 million (Q3 2015: €12.8 million). Its positive Q3 revenues, would see the Kambi post year-to-date corporate …

Stockholm-listed European sports betting operator Unibet Plc is on target to deliver its strongest ever full-year performance, following a consecutive ‘all-time high’ quarter performance for Q3 2016 (period ending 30 September). Updating the market, Unibet detailed that period group revenues had hit £142 million (Q3 2015: £83 million). Its strong revenue performance would see Unibet declare a period EBITA of …

New UK online betting operator Sun Bets, has revealed to SBC that it is on the hunt for top industry talent to join its ranks as the company targets exceptional growth in 2017. The Tabcorp and News UK betting joint venture, which launched last August aims to take on industry legacy betting operators by creating a unique and distinctive brand …

Updating the market, Irish bookmaker SeanieMac has confirmed the ‘full upgrade’ of its online betting platform, which will allow the operator to provide its customers with a better overall engagement of markets and services. The operator’s platform upgrade has been presented as one of the independent bookmaker’s key corporate milestones for full-year 2016. The integrated platform has been further supported …

Innovative betting industry supplier Golden Race has become the first virtual sports developer to receive a Class 4 licence in Malta. The company received the recognition from the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) earlier this month after an extensive application process. The award of this licence is the latest development in Golden Race’s push to be the biggest virtual sports provider to …